OBJECTIVE To assess the degree to which the Chinese people are protected from catastrophic household expenditure and impoverishment from medical expenses and to explore the health system and structural factors influencing the first of these outcomes. METHODS Data were derived from the Fourth National Health Service Survey. An analysis of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that providing patients with access to their medical records and secure messaging with health care professionals improves health outcomes in chronic care by encouraging and activating patients to manage their own condition. OBJECTIVES The aim was to evaluate the effect of access to a patient portal on patient activation among chronically ill patients. Further,...

BACKGROUND eHealth apps have the potential to meet the information needs of patient populations and improve health literacy rates. However, little work has been done to document perceived usability of portals and health literacy of specific topics. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to establish a baseline of lung cancer health literacy and perceived portal usability. METHODS A survey based on previousl...

856 PEDIATRICS, May 1965 T HAT children have families, and that the health of children-the obvious concern of pediatricians-depends, in part, upon the universal social institution of the family, needs no defense. Indeed, the skeptic asks, “What is there new about the family that helps me give better care to childnen?” The purpose of this symposium was not so much to describe what was new but as...

This paper discusses the services and treatments that are offered in Montenegro to persons who are mentally ill. A short history is given. The law on the protection of the rights of patients who are mentally ill is described, along with the regulations governing voluntary and forced treatment. An action plan for promoting mental health has been partly already realised but some of its aims still...

Mental illness and its treatment are largely invisible. We use multiple publicly available data sources to evaluate changes in the well-being of Americans with mental illnesses over the past decade. We find that access to care, including specialty psychiatric and inpatient care, and financial protection have improved. However, not all people with mental health problems have shared in these impr...

BACKGROUND This paper analyzes progress made toward the integration of the French health care system for the older and chronically ill population. POLICIES Over the last 10 years, the French health care system has been principally influenced by two competing linkage models that failed to integrate social and health care services: local information and coordination centers, governed by the soc...